Mexico tops Jamaica 2-0 for second win

January 24, 2010

Liliana Godoy scored for the second straight game and helped Mexico to a 2-0 victory over Jamaica on Saturday that helped assure El Tri of a semifinal berth at the CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship.

Charlyn Corral also scored to give Mexico its second consecutive victory and gave it six points in Group B, just behind the United States.

The goals on either side of halftime highlighted a one-sided match in which Mexico had most of the possession but one in which neither team produced many chances.

Corral, who set up both goals in Mexico’s opening 2-1 victory over Trinidad on Thursday, finally got one of her own in the 45th minute. Godoy sent a high, looping cross from the right that goalkeeper Sashagay Spence was able to get a hand to. But the ball deflected onto Mexican captain Lydia Rangel at the back post and bounded into the middle of the area where Corral pounced opportunistically.

Jamaica, which was beaten 6-0 in its opener on Thursday, often keep eight or nine players in its own half in the first 45 minutes, limiting Mexico’s ability to create anything, but also prohibiting it from getting numbers forward.

It started the second half with an apparent more offensive mindset, and paid for the tactical change quickly.

Godoy traded passes with Sandra Mayor at the top of the offensive third before unleashing a 30-meter blast that curled just inside the left post out of the reach of a diving Spence.

Jamaica’s chances were almost exclusively limited to shots from distance, the best of which came less than two minutes after the opening kickoff when Nicole Campell launched a drive from midfield that settled on top of the net.

The second half was similar to the first with Mexico dominating possession and Jamaica finding it difficult to get out of its own end.

Mexico will face the United States in the group finale on Monday while Jamaica will face Caribbean rival Trinidad.

GUATEMALA CITY

Concacaf

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